>Actually, he's saying that we cannot apply the terms "insane" or
>"lunatic" to Joseph Stalin. And in this context, and accompanied by
>Chris's insistence that Stalin's actions were perfectly "rational,"
>there's little else it can be but a defense of Stalin.
So are you arguing that several decades of Soviet history, which involved scores of millions of people, can be explained by the psychopathology of one man?
Doug